Asian Games Cricket Schedule Out, October 3 Could See Two Different India Matches In Two Countries

The Asian Video games cricket schedule is out. Within the ladies’s part, India will straight enter the quarter-finals on September 18. The semi-finals can be held on September 20, whereas the medal matches can be performed on September 22. Within the males’s part, India will straight enter the quarter-finals on September 28. The semi-finals can be held on October 1, whereas the medal matches can be performed on October 3 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. On the identical day, the third ODI between India and the West Indies can be performed in New Chandigarh. If India qualify for the ultimate, two Indian groups can be enjoying on the identical day in several nations.

The identical factor occurred on September 12, 1998, when India performed on the Commonwealth Video games in Kuala Lumpur and the Sahara Friendship Cup in Toronto on the identical day.

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The twentieth Asian Video games will see the ladies’s match get underway on September 17 ~ adopted by the lads’s competitors from September 24! #AsianGames2026 #ACC pic.twitter.com/bOamnB5sya

— AsianCricketCouncil (@ACCMedia1) September 7, 2026

Head of the Centre of Excellence (CoE) VVS Laxman will function the pinnacle coach of the Indian males’s cricket group for the upcoming Asian Video games in Aichi-Nagoya.

The event was confirmed by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports activities because it introduced the 768-member Indian contingent for the Asian Video games, comprising 503 athletes, 246 group officers/assist employees, and 19 contingent employees members.

Laxman will oversee the lads’s group as common head coach Gautam Gambhir will get a relaxation forward of the West Indies white-ball collection, which can get underway on September 27. As per the ministry’s launch, Sunil Joshi, Hrishikesh Kanitkar and Subhadeep Ghosh will be part of Laxman, whereas Amol Muzumdar will spearhead the ladies’s group on the Asiad.

Laxman just lately oversaw the Indian group through the T20I collection in opposition to Zimbabwe in July. This adopted Gambhir being rested after the white-ball collection in opposition to England.

The Indian males’s and girls’s groups enter the Asian Video games as defending champions, having received the title on the 2022 Hangzhou Video games. Ruturaj Gaikwad led the largely second-string Indian facet to gold on the Asiad, whereas Harmanpreet Kaur guided the Girls in Blue to gold within the ladies’s occasion.